Joan Cornellà's painted cartoon strips are wonderfully weird.
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12:23 pm Tue
May 7, 2013
The comics of Joan Cornellà
MAD Magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99
Best known for his “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions” and the ever-ubiquitous MAD Fold-In, cartoonist Al Jaffee has retired today at the age of 99, making him the longest working cartoonist in history. Jaffee began his career working for Marvel pre-cursors Timely and Atlas Comics in the early 1940s but settled into his lifelong position […]
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Talking Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics with Visionary Comic Book Creator Tom Scioli
Visionary comic book creator Tom Scioli discusses his new work, Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics, set to be released July 14, 2020 from Ten Speed Press. Tom Scioli won a Xeric Grant in 1999 for his creator-owned comic book series, The Myth of 8-Opus, and gained further prominence as co-creator […]
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Cartoonist sells his "crappy rejected" New Yorker submissions
For Christmas, I gifted myself with a New Yorker subscription. At the end of January, in my inbox zine, I wrote about becoming a little obsessed with the magazine’s cartoon caption contest, and how I had shared the fun with my 15-year-old daughter. I then found myself searching and following all the New Yorker-published cartoonists […]
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Work out your jaws with Jawzrsize
If you want swole arms cut like tree trunks, you start savaging the curl bars. If you want to sculpt a tight, firm core, you have lots of planking and bridges in your future. So what do you do if you want to knock out that double chin? Or put a little added definition into […]
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Calmind can beat back the anxiety, soothe your mind and make you a happier, healthier you
Considering the state of our world, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to find lots and lots of people pushed to their breaking point. Anxiety and stress are often constant companions during the best of times. But now, with fear and frustration running rampant, it’s easy to be subsumed by all the distractions and […]
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The Backshield doesn’t just comfort your back. It retrains and strengthens it too.
Most of us aren’t constantly beset by poor posture. But all it takes is some subtle misalignment while you’re doing serious hours behind the wheel driving or working away at a desk to do a real number on your back. In fact, most of us are so unaware of the mechanics of good posture that […]
